Razor-strop.



No. 65|,588. Patented June I2, |900. A. WITT.

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(Application led July 29, 1899.) (N0 Model.)

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NrTnD STATES ADOLPI-I WITT, OF STRASBURG, GERMANY.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 651,588, dated June 12, 1900.

Application filed my 29, 1899. serial No. 725,558. (No matin To @ZZ whom, t may concern: v

Be it known that I, ADOLPH WITT, cutler and manufacturer of chirurgical instruments, a subject of the German Emperor, residing at Metzgerstrasse 14, Strasburg, Alsace, Germany, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Razor-Strops; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The object of my invention is to construct an improved razor strop which isA readily adaptable to razors of various sectional formsV and widths and either iiat or curved.

In order that my said invention may be particularly described and ascertained,ref

erence is hereby made to the accompanyingI drawings, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

Figures 1 and 2 are longitudinal sections at right angles to each other, Fig. 2 showing the steel springs and leather band curved.

a d designate the outside leather band, the two ends of which are secured to the metallic block c by screws.

Z9 b are two plates of spring-steel, which support and distend the leather ct. The two ends of each of the springs b are held by snugs integral with the metallic blocks c and d, as shown in Fig. 2. Y

c' is a screw-threaded rod integral with the handle 7c and capable of revolving therewith.

Zis a screw the inner end of which enters an annular groove formed in the rod of the.

screw t', whereby the latter is secured in its bearing in the block c.

m m are rods made fast to the block c, and n n areA tubes made fast to the block CZ, the said rods sliding telescopically in the tubes, as shown, and operating as guides to the blocks c and d.

h is a nut to the screwt', this nut being soldered to the tubes n n.

By means of the screw t' and nut h the blocks c and d can be caused to approach toward or recede from each other, whereby the curvature of the springs brand leather a can be regulated as required to suit razors of various sectional forms and widths.

For the purpose of stretching the leather band a when it has become slack a set-screw f, threaded into a Aplate e, is fitted, the end of the screw abutting against the block d, as shown. The plate ev is fitted with pins g, guided in corresponding holes of the block d.

The scale shown on one of the rods m serves to determine the degree of convexity of the steel blades b b andleather ct to suit the sectional forms and widths of thevrazors.

Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is-V 1. The combination in a razor-strop of the two iiexible and convexly-curved plates b,A

. flexible coverings or surfaces ct adapted for sharpening razors, tubes 'an -rigid in the block d, and rods m m rigid in the block c adapted to telescope in said tubes, a nut 71 rigid on said tubes, and a screw-threaded rod t' engaging said nut for approaching or receding said blocks toward or from each other, respectively, wherebythe convexity of the plates can be regulated, substantially as described.

3. The combination in a razor-strop of the two flexible plates l) having opposite convex surfaces, the blocks c d connecting said plates, iiexible coverings or surfaces a ,adapted for sharpening razors, tubesn n rigid in the block to telescope in said tubes, one of said rods ing recesses in the block d, as and for the having a graduated scale, a nut '7L rigid ou purpose set forth. 1o said tubes, a'soreW-threaded Vrod fi engaging In testimony whereof I affix my signature said nut for approaching o1' receding said in presence of two Witnesses.

5 blocks toward or from each other, respee- ADOLPH XVITT.

tively, a handle k attached to said rod, and XVitxlesses: of the set-screw f and nut e, the latter hav; R. IIOELZER, ing pins g adapted to ente? into eorrespond- A. XVAECHTER. 

